* If you can get a little book called Grammar Land (published by Henry Holt & Co., New York), now is the time to read it and enjoy it thoroughly.

1. When a group of words expresses a thought, what is it called? What is a declarative sentence? An interrogative sentence? An imperative

sentence?

1. Write (a) a declarative sentence, (b) an interrogative sentence, (c) an imperative sentence, (d) an exclamation that is a sentence.

2. Of what two parts is every sentence made up? What are they? 3. Of what use is the subject of a sentence? What kind of word may be used alone as the subject of a sentence? Write two examples.

4. Of what use is the predicate of a sentence? What does the word predicate mean? What kind of word may stand alone as the predicate of What is a verb? What is a verbal word? Illustrate.

a sentence?

2. Copy these declarative sentences, and draw a short vertical line between the subject and the predicate of each:

Mahogany, rosewood, oak, walnut, maple, and pine are used in making furniture.

* It is assumed that the work of Chapters I. and II. occupied a year, and that the class enter upon this new work, after a long vacation, in need of review and recapitulation.

Sir Walter Scott wrote The Lady of the Lake.

He was a great English poet and novelist.

The first telegraph line used in America was stretched from Washington to Baltimore in 1844.

Moss grows in the woods.

3. Draw one line under every noun, and two lines under every verb, used in the sentences copied.

5. When a word modifies the application of a noun or a pronoun, what is it called? 6. What may an adverb modify? 7. What is a preposition? 8. A phrase? 9. What may a conjunction connect? 10. What is an interjection? 11. Write a sentence containing five parts of speech.

4. As you read the following, separate each sentence into its subject and predicate, and tell all that you can about every word used in each:

The best figs come from Turkey and Greece.
The night blooming cereus is a rare plant.

It blossoms in the night.

We shall go from Niagara Falls to Lake Erie.
John brought his slate to school.

Who has written the Exercise?

Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg.

I saw Edith with her mother to-day.

Ponce de Leon, an old Spanish soldier, came to
America in search of the fountain of youth.

She speaks German and French fluently.

The early bird catches the worm.

We rose early and took a long walk.

Rising early gives one an appetite for breakfast
They were hospitable and very kind.

You seemed very much amused.

11. What is an incomplete verb? The complement of a verb? The object of a verb? The object of a preposition?

5. Copy these sentences, and draw a line under (a) every incomplete verb, (b) every verb phrase: You should have been writing.

He was a studious boy.
We saw the procession.

I heard the music.

The tree is tall.

I will be waiting at the corner.

II.

1. What is a quotation? What rules should be followed in writing quotations?

2. What rules for the use of capitals have you learned?

3. Copy this poem:

ROBERT OF LINCOLN.

1. MERRILY Swinging on brier and weed,
Near to the nest of his little dame,

Over the mountain-side or mead,
Robert of Lincoln is telling his name:
"Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link,

Spink, spank, spink ;

Snug and safe is that nest of ours,
Hidden among the summer flowers."

2. Robert of Lincoln is gayly dressed,

Wearing a bright black wedding-coat;
White are his shoulders and white his crest;
Hear him call in his merry note:

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'Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link,

Spink, spank, spink;

Look what a nice new coat is mine;
Surely there was never a bird so fine."

3. Robert of Lincoln's Quaker wife,

Pretty and quiet, with plain brown wings, Passing at home a patient life,

Broods in the grass while her husband sings: "Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link,

Spink, spank, spink;

Brood, kind creature; you need not fear
Thieves and robbers while I am here."

4. Modest and shy as a nun is she;
One weak chirp is her only note.
Braggart and prince of braggarts is he,
Pouring boasts from his little throat:
'Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link,

Spink, spank, spink;

Never was I afraid of man;

Catch me, cowardly knaves, if you can!”

5. Six white eggs on a bed of hay,

Flecked with purple, a pretty sight!
There as the mother sits all day,
Robert is singing with all his might:
"Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link,

Spink, spank, spink ;

Nice good wife that never goes out,
Keeping house while I frolic about."

6. Soon as the little ones chip the shell,
Six wide mouths are open for food;
Robert of Lincoln bestirs him well,
Gathering seeds for the hungry brood.